Amazon Announces Raft of German Original Series, Soccer Programming

Italy’s most popular tourist sites.Culture Minister Dario Franceschini announced Saturday that Gabriel Zuchtriegel won out over 43 other candidates for the job.Zuchtriegel, 39, has been directing another ancient marvel in southern Italy, the state archeological park of Paestum and Velia.

BERLIN -- Hundreds of German police and other investigators raided more than 20 buildings in Berlin and the surrounding state of Brandenburg early Thursday in a crackdown on two feuding organized crime families, authorities said.Berlin prosecutors said on Twitter that two people were arrested in the raids targeting illegal drug and weapons trafficking.In addition, authorities were investigating bodily harm charges linked to a “clash of clans” between an Arabic and a Chechen organized crime

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentWim Wenders’ Berlin-based Road Movies has boarded “This Is Music,” a series whose episode directors – New German Cinema leading light Wenders, singer-songwriter David Byrne, “Skam” creator Julie Andem and “Louder Than Bombs” director Joachim Trier – make the title the highest profile project at this year’s Berlinale Co-Pro Series.Norwegian public broadcaster NRK is backing the development of the series, which has also received support from the

Naman Ramachandran Sky Studios and Gaumont have teamed on “The Wasp,” the first Sky original comedy to be produced for Sky Deutschland.The six-part series follows Eddie Frotzke, a fallen professional dart player who, after a prolonged career slump, wants to return to his former glory.

Germany's box office last year was decimated by the coronavirus pandemic, with official figures showing a 69 percent drop in revenue compared to 2019. The German Federal Film Board (FFA) has published its official figures, showing theatrical revenuefell to just $386 million (€318 million) in 2020, down $857 million (€706 million) from the previous year.

EXCLUSIVE: German Films, the agency that promotes German cinema globally, has unveiled participants for the sixth edition of its Face To Face With German Films campaign, which this year will be dedicated to local talent across all aspects of the filmmaking world.

Elyas M’Barek, star of Who Am I and hit German comedy franchise Fack ju Göhte, and Deutschland 89lead Jonas Nay have been cast to star in 1000 Zeilen (1000 Lines), a media satire inspired by the real-life 2018 fake news scandal involving disgraced Der Spiegel journalist Claas Relotius. Nay will play Lars Bogenius, an award-winning star writer at a major German news magazine who secretly has been faking his interviews and reporting.

Gina Carano has released a statement after she was fired from the Star Wars series The Mandalorian.

Facebook page that he would appeal the verdict.“As a father, the well-being of my children is the most important thing for me,” he wrote. “William was and is never obliged to appear with us at our shows.

Scarlxrd has announced details of a UK and European live tour that he’ll embark on later this year.The Wolverhampton artist will tour in support of his new album ‘Dxxm II’, which was released last Friday (February 5).Scarlxrd confirmed the tour, which is set to kick off in Frankfurt in Germany on October 25, earlier this week.The run includes four UK dates, beginning in Birmingham at the O2 Institute on November 16 and concluding with a gig at the Academy 2 in Manchester on November 20.XN SALE

BERLIN -- The Berlin International Film Festival on Thursday announced 15 films that are part of this year's competition and will compete for the top Golden and Silver Bear awards.

Gallery: German expressions to get you 'running' (dw. com)The show had been off the BBC for six years or so, after getting the ill-advised axe in 1997: a gap so long that researchers had to scour the streets of Salford begging passers-by to come and join us for a few hours and look as though they were delighted to be there.

Nearly 200 LGBTQ actors in Germany, including some of the country's biggest film and TV stars, staged a mass coming-out in a German national newspaper on Friday, in a public appeal for more diversity on stage and screen. The 185 gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender actors — among them Babylon Berlin star Udo Samel, and Karin Hanczewski and Mark Waschke from No.

Amazon Prime Video has pulled the curtain back on a slate of German originals, which range from an adaptation of the cult novel The Gryphon to a documentary on soccer giants FC Bayern Munich.

Germany’s major cinema organization HDF Kino has expressed concerns about a proposed model for the country’s exit from lockdown that places cinemas last in line.

The practice of artists or their labels purchasing streams of songs in order to make the musician appear to be more popular than they are is one of the most controversial and shadowy pitfalls of the streaming era.

Netflix has acquired the majority of global rights (excluding Germany) on And Tomorrow the Entire World, Julia von Heinz’s political drama which is the German International Oscar entry this year.